Written By
Anirudh Sood
on
Saturday, 25 February 2017
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10:30:00

India's first hills smart city project to begin at Waknaghat in Solan district, Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh government had already allocated 450 bighas of land for this project.

The state would sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Singapore government on 27th February to build first smart hill town and selected as a prime location in waknaghat that comes under Solan district.

The Singapore government have agreed to invest 2,500 Crore of rupees under this project. This was announced by chief minister Virbhadra Singh to review progress of various schemes implemented near Shimla and Solan.

The smart city will be equipped by all modern facilities as per international standards. The smart city will be designed in such manner that should be able to handle population criteria in planned manner.